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@neiltyson @timoreilly I think it is more historical thefreedictionary.com/Libra the ancient Roman pound, containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams
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OH: "One thing Ireland has taught me is to be less cynical about jackets with hoodies." Indeed. The wind off the Burren is intense.
Not that anybody asked, but the symbol "lb" for pound comes from an abbreviation of the constellation Libra, the scales.
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Bay Area peeps: @makerfaire is in San Mateo this weekend. Don't miss it. makerfaire.com
The Economist writeup on the @OReillyMedia data sensing lab at Google I/O gets the point of it all econ.st/15TFuXE via @edd
Super @kevin2kelly piece on how to reboot the industrial age after a societal collapse: medium.com/bootstrapping-… (@MediumEditorial)
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Fun eye candy of the day: the submarine cables of the world. #MoreOfMyKindOfFun cablemap.info
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And here's another (actually, I like this one incrementally better than the previous one) submarinecablemap.com
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Brought a smile to my morning. “@dpatil: The best venn diagram ever washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/…
Pope Francis, saying things that need to be said. Esp like graf about "worship of the golden calf of old" goo.gl/Xv9rv
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Rep. Watt says "people don't want to pay for anything." Actually consumer spending on entertainment has gone up over last decade. #copyright
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Nice to see reports on the O'Reilly Data Sensing Lab at Google I/O news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109… This is the first story to give us credit
Facial Recognition Comes to Google Glass mashable.com/2013/05/13/goo… done in health care hackathon, seems useful. via @gnat
Data center owners make more money on power than on rent? nytimes.com/2013/05/14/tec… Interesting how economics change with technology
Amazing what happens when you open up government procurement to more than the usual suspects dobt.co/The-Results-Ar… We need more of this!
[Podcast]: @timoreilly talks on why #startups need to create more value than they capture & 9 other tips @ECorner stanford.io/13Zfp4R
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Interesting new research on amber sheds light on how glasses form, contradicting long-held popular beliefs news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/1…
Nice news! US budget deficit shrinks more quickly than expected nytimes.com/2013/05/15/bus… So glad that fear-mongering has proven excessive
Stiglitz rips bankers, for-profit schools, and the government over student loans that "crush the American dream." opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/stu…
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Mining the Social Web - $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL oreil.ly/18Igv8j Early release 2nd edition
Everything you need to know about the IRS scandal in one FAQ wapo.st/12xMJyg
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U MAD??? Morosov, The Internet, And The Failure Of Invective goo.gl/UhpcZ "Morozov does not describe the Internet I know at all."
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RT @ValdisKrebs: Intense Interval Training... the upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done. well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the…
I love @gnat's turn of phrase in his opening paragraph of today's Four Short Links radar.oreilly.com/2013/05/four-s…
Canadian Science Agency Will Now Only Support Corporate Science (no a joke, eh, no i mean oi vey) slate.com/blogs/bad_astr… via @BadAstronomer
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Did internet sales tax backers bribe Congress? m.slashdot.org/story/186045 Trolling headline, but what are the boundaries? Contribution vs bribe
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects - $11.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL oreil.ly/125LqGg
Build tools that build better governments. Apply for @codeforamerica Startup Accelerator: c4a.me/ISWmxx #civicstartup
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.- Johann von Goethe
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(@OReillyMedia ebooks have long been available in Daisy and Braille formats via our partnership with @Benetech) 2/2
Kindle iOS app now updated for accessibility to the visually impaired fedoraoutlier.com/breaking-amazo… Finally! Kudos to Amazon.
The interesting aspect of revolutions is that they occur in parallel. They're *resolved* to serial, but that's just literature.
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Streets in NYC with protected bicycle lanes saw retail sales rise by 49%. (city average: 3%). Amazing. bit.ly/VkyI79
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What if Mom got paid for being Mom? blocktalk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/upl… Or stay at home Dads... Nice wage and tax infographic. Via @KatieS
Foursquare’s slowly eating away at everything that made Yelp special, now with filtering by open hours and price: blog.foursquare.com/2013/05/10/fin…
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It's past time to get off fossil fuels slashdot.org/story/13/05/10… CO2 at 400 ppm
RT @mikeloukides: I wrote a bit about Othermill (milling machine kickstarter) on Radar: oreil.ly/10uRFXz
Love it! @WOWFarmTeam wowfarm.biz West Oakland high school students learn about and operate an urban farm as a small business
RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% - Hack Your Way to Improved Productivity #LifeHacker #MindHacks oreil.ly/178ZUeq
Smartphone face: beauty secrets of the digerati (Not) bit.ly/YyYJjE
Brilliant problem-solving: Lucy King's beehive fences keep African elephants from destroying crops, produce honey oreil.ly/11OmNhh
Landsat timelapse: watch glaciers shrink and Vegas gobble up the desert ti.me/13HGdGT via @slashdot
people who mispronounce words because they learned them from reading independently are deserving of admiration not scorn
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POTUS apparently called out Stormpulse, Opower, iTriage as companies built on open gov data in his remarks on new exec order. Many more.
I bet @RomanStanek likes that slogan! RT @beyond_curious: Big data, small data, then there's @gooddata #bigdata hub.am/18wHaVj
I love science! Virus-based sensors find antibiotic-resistant bacteria in minutes engt.co/16kAVok